Category Archives: Syndicated
NCAA panel signs off on player endorsements
NCAA players are a step closer to profiting from the use of their name and likeness. Under a proposal the NCAA announced Wednesday that it will support, college athletes would be permitted to sign end...
Apr 29, 2020
Finland to reopen schools and daycares gradually starting May 14
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will reopen schools and daycare centres after May 13, having kept them mostly closed since March 18 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government said on Wednesday. Finl...
Apr 29, 2020
France coronavirus death toll climbs above 24,000
PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 427 to 24,087 on Wednesday, while hospitalizations for the disease and people in ICU units continued t...
Apr 29, 2020
JD Wetherspoon to raise $175 million via placement; plans June reopening
(Reuters) - British pubs group JD Wetherspoon plans to raise 141 million pounds ($175 million) in a share placing as it tries to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, which has...
Apr 29, 2020
WHO declines comment on remdesivir in COVID-19, hopes for best
GENEVA (Reuters) - A top World Health Organization official declined comment on Wednesday on reports that Gilead Science's remdesivir could help treat COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the n...
Apr 29, 2020
Fear, sticker shock over health insurance greet laid-off workers
By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you were laid off in April, the health insurance from your job may stop at the end of the month. Then what? Rest assured there are options, even if they are all...
Apr 29, 2020
UK will have to wait for excess death statistics for clearer COVID-19 picture: health official
LONDON (Reuters) - Figures for the number of excess deaths in Britain as a result of the coronavirus crisis will provide a clearer picture of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but might not be avail...
Apr 29, 2020
Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they ca...
Apr 29, 2020
Big insurers face fresh coronavirus claim threat from UK hospitality sector
By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) - Top insurers such as AXA , RSA , QBE and Zurich face a potential multi-million pound lawsuit from British pubs, hotels, restaurants and leisure gr...
Apr 29, 2020
Trump, Fauci see hope with Gilead’s drug in coronavirus fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday greeted as good news reports that a Gilead Sciences Inc experimental antiviral drug might help fight the coronavirus, and infectious dis...
Apr 29, 2020
